Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina said yesterday that transgender people will be able to use public facilities that correspond to their gender identity under a proposal to settle the lawsuit initiated to challenge North Carolina's notorious HB2.

Challengers had continued their lawsuit after legislators passed and the Democratic governor signed a law this spring replacing HB2, the law commonly known as the “bathroom bill.”

The Attorney's General of 15 states and the District of Columbia have filed a brief in the US District Court for DC arguing that President Trump's proposed ban on military service by transgender people is unconstitutional, against the national interest and harmful to the transgender community.

Our military should be open to every brave American who volunteers to serve.

--Maura Healy, Massachusetts

The American Principles Project has displayed that they have none. The Washington conservative think tank, fearful of losing the race between Danica Roem (D) and Robert G. Marshall (R) in Prince William County has decided that it needs to attack Roem on her gender identity.

A robo call has been rolled out:

The National Center for Transgender Equality has released its survey results for the state of Rhode Island. The numbers are from 2015, but state specific-results have just been released.

The poverty rate for the general population of Rhode Island is 14.3%. For transgender residents, the poverty rate is 35%.

Hector Balderas, the Attorney General of the state of New Mexico, sent a letter yesterday to US Attorney General Sessions in response to Sessions' memo issued last week that said no federal civil rights laws protect transgender people from discrimination at work.

Sessions called the interpretation a "conclusion of law, not policy," and said the move should not be construed to condone mistreatment of transgender people.